Plant/Anatomy Portfolio I, 2017
Boxed portfolio of ten archival Inkjet prints with monotype (and text page) on Magnani Pescia paper, 14 x 10 inches
Edition of 3. $1100
Plant/Anatomy Portfolio II, 2017
Boxed portfolio of eight archival Inkjet prints with monotype (and text page) on Magnani Pescia paper, 14 x 10 inches
Edition of 3. $900
Skin Deep, 2015
ADigital print and monotype accordion fold artist’s book, vintage anatomical illustrations layered with bark imagery, 11.5 inches x 15.75 inches, Edition of 2. $900
Statement
Drawn to (often) transformable (malleable) materials
Such as: wrapping paper, bark, bandages, cloth
Random arrangements of the materials
Looking at the arrangement of materials
(Re) arrangements of the materials
Looking at this arrangement of materials (again)
From different points of view
Framing (composing) using a camera
Large field of view or narrow focus
Looking at all the resulting possibilities
Choosing some, rejecting others
Changing color, value, contrast
Action. Reaction. Making a print
Looking at (print) and making connections
Finding images and weaving together
Synthesis. Meaning? Narrative?
What is the result?
Like a pile of trash? Like a landscape? Like a dream?
Taking out, putting in, changing, reverting
Making a print? Making a painting?
Intuition, analysis, sleep
Biography
James M. Martin was born in Fort Worth, Texas and received his BFA from University of Texas at Austin and MFA from Texas A & M at Commerce. He was the recipient of an NEA grant in 1976-77 as artist-in-resident at the Longview Museum and Art Center in Texas.
Additionally, he has worked as a printer at Solo Press and taught lithography at Pratt Graphics Center, Manhattan Graphics Center, and Long Island University at Southampton. He currently is an Assistant professor of Art at Marymount Manhattan College. He has exhibited paintings and prints in New York, the Southwest, and internationally. In 1993 he was selected by the Port Authority to create two murals for the Central Terminal of La Guardia Airport.
At present, he is continuing work on a series of paintings of “synthetic landscapes“ and a series of digital collages related to recent arm surgeries.
